Federal authorities in New Jersey have charged a Newton, N.J., man who discussed child cannibalism online with luring a 15-year-old boy for a sexual encounter.

Federal authorities in New Jersey have charged a Newton, N.J., man who discussed child cannibalism online with luring a 15-year-old boy for a sexual encounter.

Robert Mucha (MOO-kah) was already facing a child pornography charge from July.

The U.S. Attorney's Office on Wednesday added another child pornography count and a count of enticing a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity.

In October 2010 Mucha convinced a 15-year-old boy to travel from New Jersey to Pennsylvania to spend the day with him and then sleep over at Mucha's apartment in Stroudsburg, according to court papers. After he was arrested at his home on July 26, Mucha admitted to sexual contact with the teenager.

Mucha, 56, was charged with one count of enticing a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity, one count of receiving child pornography and one count of possessing child pornography, at a hearing in Newark federal court. If convicted he faces up to life in prison.

According to court documents, using Yahoo Messenger, a web-based chat service, Mucha communicated regularly with a number of individuals who shared his sexual fascination with child cannibalism.

Among Mucha's chat partners was Michael D. Arnett, who was arrested and charged in May for production of child pornography by the U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Kansas.

In vivid and gruesome detail, the chat logs between Mucha and Arnett detailed in court papers provide a window into the men's fetishes and sexual fantasies. During their Yahoo! chats, the men discussed penetrative sex with infants, child bestiality, parent-on-child rape, strangulation of toddlers, and eroticized child cannibalism.

Many of their communications focused on the cooking and eating of prepubescent boys, with a particular interest in how they might abduct the children, drug them, roast them and, ultimately, consume them.

According to court papers, Mucha regularly masturbates to a fantasy in which he bastes a 2-year-old boy in barbecue sauce and then skewers, cooks, and eats the child like a Thanksgiving turkey. On occasion, court papers say Mucha fantasizes about the same scenario, except with himself as the victim.

Prior to his arrest, Mucha worked as a volunteer emergency medical technician in Andover, N.J. He also previously taught band and Bugle Corps to teenagers in Belleville and Lakewood, N.J. During a post-arrest statement, Mucha admitted that over the course of his life he has touched hundreds of boys for his own sexual gratification.